Storage news ticker – 23 January
Data source connector Airbyte has joined the Linux Foundation's newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member. The Agentic AI Foundation is building a collaborative ecosystem of...
Wasabi raises $70 million for AI cloud storage
Wasabi has closed a second late-stage funding event to strengthen its AI data cloud storage infrastructure.
It provides cloud storage services that are less expensive than hyperscalers like AWS, Azure,...
Nvidia, Groq, KV cache context memory extension and Phison’s edge inferencing SW
Analysis. Four events suggest that Nvidia is thinking about building mid-range AI inferencing systems. Bear with me as I describe the three and set them in an AI inferencing...
Micron jumps to PCIe Gen 5 and QLC for client SSDs
The Micron 3610 NVMe SSD is the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 QLC client SSD, powered by Micron G9 NAND and offering significantly higher performance than PCIe Gen 4 drives.
The...
Storage Ticker – 6 January 2026
Backblaze has appointed Dan Spraggins as SVP of Engineering to scale its global storage cloud. He now oversees Backblaze's engineering organization, architecting the distributed systems needed to handle the...
Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs
Nvidia has moved to address growing KV cache capacity limits by standardizing the offload of inference context to NVMe SSDs through its new Inference Context Memory Storage Platform (ICMSP)....
Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration
Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600
High-Performance Computing (HPC) isn’t just about raw compute—it’s about feeding those processors with data at blistering speed. That’s where Lenovo’s ThinkSystem...
Quobyte brings GPU-converged storage to AI clusters
Quobyte has introduced GPU-converged storage to bring data in its parallel file system and object storage software closer to GPUs, and scale as GPU servers are added.
The idea is...
AWS piles on S3 upgrades from vector search to 50 TB objects
AWS has boosted its S3 offerings with support for larger, faster-accessed, and more AI data sources, including NetApp, and has announced a Cohesity European Sovereign Cloud partnership.
The news came...
Nvidia SCADA offloads storage control path to the GPU
The Nvidia SCADA scheme is ushering in GPU-controlled storage IO for AI inferencing workloads that will be faster than GPUDirect for small block transfers.
SCADA is an Nvidia term in...
Wasabi sets itself on Fire
Wasabi is taking on public cloud hyperscalers with fast-access object storage for AI use.
Traditionally, Wasabi supplies single-tier, S3-compliant object storage in its cloud at lower-than-Amazon prices and no egress...
Hitachi Vantara’s high-end block storage array news
HItachi Vantara has revamped its mainstream VSP One 5000 enterprise storage arrays from a hybrid SSD+HDD design to all-NVMe flash systems and new, more powerful high-end model.
The updated range...